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Author: Gerhardt

Gear reducers are often rigid mounted during installation. What many people do not know is this rigid mounting causes premature failure. Why?

Rigid mounting the units puts stress on the gearing, output bearings, and seals. It can also fracture or break the conveyor shaft as many shafts are not within tolerance. There can be shaft runout. If the gearbox cannot move with the shaft, it will stress the components and cause premature failure.

STOBER can eliminate premature failure through free installation training and our variety of torque arm mounting options. Torque arm mounting allows the gearbox to float on the shaft. This method reduces shaft fatigue and eliminates premature failure. Customers who follow this principle or have our installation training benefit from the 9-plus years of life STOBER units offer.

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How often have you called in to a company to get an answering service or dial directory? STOBER has every call answered by a live representative from our Maysville, Kentucky location. All calls are answered in 3 rings or less. Our goal is to give every customer a rapid response so they can get the answers they need quickly and efficiently.

Every customer has application engineers and product specialists dedicated to filling your application needs. These teams are assigned by region so you will talk to the same team every time.

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An Ohio poultry processor was experiencing oil leakage from a competitor’s worm gearbox. The leaking oil not only caused the unit to fail prematurely but cost the company more money. The customer had to lubricate reducers, purchase drip pans to place under every unit, stock lubrication for replenishing the reducers, and dispose of the used oil.

STOBER offered the customer a food duty helical bevel solution. All STOBER products require no maintenance. The K unit is sealed for life, meaning there are dual output seals and no oil leaks ever! Not only did the company benefit from longer life but the STOBER solution saved money on drip pans, lubrication inventory, lubrication disposal, and preventative maintenance.

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Have you every purchased a gearbox and had difficult installing it? STOBER took this into consideration when designing our gearboxes. Our MGS product line have an input coupling hub and sleeve for quick installation line-up.

Connecting the motor adapter to the motor is simple – just insert the four bolts and tighten. Every unit has an input coupling to eliminate the motor seizing to the gearbox shaft and misaligning. Our patented wobble free bushing system allows the unit to easily slide onto a conveyor shaft.

Our goal is to allow the customer to quickly install their STOBER unit and allow production to resume. You can even have our application support team visit your plant and teach proper installation procedures.

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STOBER was visiting a midwestern brewery who was experiencing frequent failures with a competitor’s gearbox. The units were failing on the brewery’s filler infeed conveyor. This conveyor was cleansed every day. The sanitation process involved spraying all equipment with heavy chemicals to prevent bacteria growth. The competitor’s gearbox could not handle the harsh washdowns. The seals corroded and allow ingress to contaminate the lubrication. The gear reducers failed every 1-2 months.

The customer agreed to using a STOBER gearbox in their harsh environment. Since STOBER reducers require no maintenance and are IP69K Certified against water ingress, no contamination occurred. Our dual output seals prevented any water from entering the unit. The brewery saved a tremendous amount of money since there were no failures and STOBER units lasted over 8 years. They also enjoyed extended durability and reliability in their operations.

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Servo motors don’t necessarily need a planetary gearbox. In addition to the great planetary offering it has, STOBER offers the ServoFit™ Modular System. These gear reducers use helical gearing and can handle your servo motor needs.

The SMS series literally has billions of options – various mounting configurations, case sizes, ratios, output options, and more equate to anything you need for your machine. Choosing what you need is easy – use our online product configurator or contact our application support team to find your product.

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STOBER’s service and support does not stop after you purchase the gearbox. It is only the beginning. After you have received your unit, our application support team will visit your plant to do on-site training. They will focus on proper installation and best practices of our products.

If you have any questions or need additional assistance, our field service group is available to assist with evaluations, corrective fixes, and more. Service engineers can review your application to prevent failures with analysis and evaluation for plant optimization. There are four analysis and evaluation levels to ensure we provide the most thorough assessment possible.

After market support is just part of the STOBER service portfolio. Learn more by contacting us at 1-800-711-3588.

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STOBER’s application solutions team is ready to assist you with your gearbox and motor selection. Our application support team have worked on thousands of machines and they are ready to support you with anything you need, from quotes, drawings, life calculations, and more. Every customer has a dedicated engineer who can review your machine project, optimize its design and gearbox selection, and help you save time and money. Let’s build a better machine together.

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Updating your shop floor with new equipment and personnel is standard trade magazine fodder today—and for obvious reasons. Any feasible upgrades can make a significant impact on a company’s bottom line. So you’ll find an article or two (or three or four) in our industry that will examine the importance of investing and upgrading in your personnel and your machines.

STOBER, a company specializing in motion control and power transmission, recently published the following article to help plant managers determine if a manufacturing infrastructure update is necessary. Following the article, there’s a Q&A with Scott Alles, manufacturing manager and Landon Garrison, manufacturing engineer at STOBER.

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STOBER serves a variety of industries, including printing. We had a customer who had problems with their flexographic printing machine.

Customer was using a competitor’s gearbox. The application required very high input speeds. The competitor’s units were overheating and destroying the seals, causing oil to leak.

STOBER went to the customer and evaluated the machine. We recommended our P series unit with the servocool option to improve airflow and reduce seal wear. This eliminated the issue and allowed the customer to save money by extending the gearbox’s life, minimizing maintenance, and reducing inventory.